NURSE CAVELL'S FUNERAL.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 125, 27 May 1919, Page 5

NURSE CAVELL'S FUNERAL.

IMPRESSIVE DEMONSTRATION,

SERVICE IN THE ABBEY.

BURIED IN NATIVE TOWN. (Received 10.35 a.m.) LONDON. .May 2(i. Nurse Cavell'a funeral service at Westminster Abbey was an outstanding women's demonstration. There has been nothing like it since Queen Victoria's funeral. The Hags on the Government offices were down at half-mast, and the streets were crowded with women, outnumbering men fivefold. The Coldstream Guards met the coffin at Victoria Station and placed it on a gun-carriage, where it was covered with the Inion .lack, on which was placed a single wreath. The Guards escorted the body to the west door of the Abbey, in which ;i, remarkable gathering was assembled. 11l the choir were Queen Alexandria, Princess Victoria, members of the Cabinet, ambassadors, high commissioners, agents-general, leading military and naval officers. Australian nurses were prominent in thi> nave, also big delegations of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Air Force girls. Red Cross nurses, and every department of women's activity in the war. The anthems, prayers, and lessons emphasised the dominant note of the service, that Nur-o C'avell was a Christian who died in the Lord.

The most moving episode was the congregation singing "Abide With Mc," which Nurse Cavcll repeated just before her execution. The service clotted with the -Dead March in Saul" and the "Last Post."

The gun-carriage, escorted by the Coldst reams, passed along the Thames Embankment and through the city, the I.old Mayor saluting from the Mansion Hmi-e. Tremendous crowds assembled along the route to Liverpool Station, whence the body was taken to Norwich, where it was buried in the corner of the Cathedral close called Life's Green, under the shadow of the memorial chapel to tho~e who died in the war-

President I'oincare has awarded Xurse Cavrll the posthumous decoration of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.—(A. and S./,. Cable.)